Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Sixty to eighty percent of jobs are found through networking.

What does that mean and how do you do it? Learn about the Who, What, Where, When, and How of networking basics.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients.

Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Make the most of your day by knowing how to manage your time from morning until evening.

Set up habits and routines that will allow you to be more productive.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Fundraising success depends on organization-wide efforts from the leadership of the board and the dedication of front-line staff. This custom course from The Fund Raising School focuses on the role the board plays in fundraising and how to best structure the organization to support this role.

In this day-long session, board members and staff will learn work together to improve the culture of philanthropy in the organization and how fundraising fits into the recruitment and responsibilities of the board. Registration is $50 for one staff member and one board member; additional board and staff members can be registered at $20 each.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand board and staff responsibilities in the organization
• How to engage the board in fundraising
• Review and adapt tools and strategies to recruit, train, mentor, and redirector board members to support overall fundraising

Cost: $50

Facilitator:

Bill Stanczykiewicz
Director and Rosso Fellow
The Fund Raising School IU
Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

Serving as assistant dean for external relations, Bill Stanczykiewicz oversees communications and fundraising for the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy while directing The Fund Raising School. Bill also serves as a core faculty member, teaching graduate and bachelor’s level courses
on philanthropy, fundraising, and leadership. Bill’s professional career spans the philanthropic, public, and private sectors.

He served for 17 years as President & CEO of the Indiana Youth Institute, a statewide nonprofit devoted to healthy youth development and academic achievement. This opportunity followed his leadership position in the mayor’s office in Indianapolis, where he served as policy director for community renewal, designing and implementing The Front Porch Alliance.

Bill earned a doctoral degree in interdisciplinary leadership, and his dissertation examined methods for increasing board engagement with fundraising. His master’s degree is in public administration from George Mason University, which followed his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Bill also has attained post-graduate credentials from Vanderbilt University and The Fund Raising School.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Burnout has become one of the biggest challenges in the workforce today.

Learn tips for how to de-stress, prioritize yourself, and find energy again in your daily life.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

All Aboard: Board Leadership in Motion is a three-hour workshop ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails, and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Lunch Will Be Provided

This session is a partnership with the Heart of Indiana United Way and the Nonprofit Support Network and is sponsored in-part by: Stallings Wealth Management.

Panel Discussion Led by John Anderson. Panelists Include:

• Keith Doudt
• Linzi Rodgers
• SteVen Knipp

Participant Takeaways

• An understanding of the roles and responsibilities of a not-for-profit board member
• How to determine board opportunities that match interests, skills, & desired level of commitment
• Guidance on how to be an effective board member
• Insight on how to find potential board member opportunities
• Descriptions of board member opportunities currently available in the area

Who Should Attend?

All Aboard is ideal for individuals who have a desire to serve on a not-for-profit board but want to learn more about what serving as a board member entails and how to find the potential board opportunity that suits their interests and skill sets.

Tuition:

Thanks to our generous sponsors, All Aboard is available for free.

About Our Facilitator:

Our presenter is Dave Sternberg, Senior Partner of the Indianapolis and Ft. Lauderdale based firm of Loring, Sternberg & Associates, provides fundraising and governance consulting services to nonprofits.

Dave Sternberg has been a nonprofit professional since obtaining a bachelor’s degree from The Ohio State University. Today, he is a member of the faculty at the Lilly School of Philanthropy’s Fund Raising School, a BoardSource senior governance consultant, and an independent consultant with Loring, Sternberg and Associates.

For The Fund Raising School, Dave teaches “Developing Annual Sustainability, Principles and Technique of Fundraising” and “Developing Major Gifts,” as well as numerous customized training programs nationally and internationally. As a BoardSource consultant, Dave provides counsel on such topics as strategic planning and fundraising. His clients describe him as a gifted strategist, adept at assessing and identifying solutions for organizational and board challenges, and brutally honest.

He is the only person in America to hold a position with both Board Source and the Fund Raising School.

Dementia affects every community and is a significant burden on the mental and physical health of family caregivers. There is still a significant misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about the disease, resulting in stigma and isolation for those living with dementia and their caregivers. The Dementia Friends Indiana initiative, an outreach of Dementia Friendly America, seeks to educate communities about dementia, break down the stigma surrounding dementia, and implement practical changes that make life easier to navigate for those with dementia and their loved ones. Learn how you can make a positive difference in the lives of people living with dementia through increased awareness and support.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe dementia and understand the most common types
2. State five key messages about dementia
3. Explain an approach to effectively communicate with a person with dementia

This program is ideal for: anyone interested in making their community a more inclusive, age-friendly place to live.

About Our Facilitator

Holly Neal is the Caregiver Programs Coordinator for LifeStream Services and the Dementia Friendly Liaison for East Central Indiana. Hollyn has a bachelor’s degree in Health Education and Promotion from Ball State University, and is a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). Hollyn is especially passionate about caregiver health and well-being, and educating the community on dementia.

Since February 2022, Hollyn has led 25 Dementia Friends sessions and made 230 Dementia Friends throughout East Central Indiana. Hollyn is also a Dementia Friends Indiana Master Champion, and has trained 3 new champions to lead these information sessions in their own communities.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

The resume may get you the interview, but the interview gets you the job!

Learn holistically about in-person, phone, and video interviewing strategies to ensure you are prepared for your next interview.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Your experiences and skills are valuable- determine your worth and pursue that goal.

Let’s talk about how to ASK for what you want whether you are negotiating salary or asking for a raise.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

What keeps you going all day?

Together we will discuss celebrating the wins, focusing on goals and tasks, and contributing to the bigger picture.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Do you struggle with finding people to fill your open positions? Are you feeling alone in the fight? Are $15/hour jobs taking all of the “good” employees? We will use this session to help you recognize how to maximize your brand to recruit talent that can contribute to your mission of service and community improvement.

Learning Objectives:

• Attendees will identify what part(s) of their brand might stand out to potential candidates
• Attendees can take away a list of steps in the recruiting and hiring process
• Attendees will brainstorm ways to advertise open positions in ways that shows results, including in nontraditional or untapped populations
• Attendees will discuss and uncover tools that can help hire the “right” candidate
• Attendees will know how to engage others in the recruiting and interviewing process

Cost: $25

Facilitators:

James Mitchell is originally from Chicago and earned two degrees (BA in English and MSEd in Adult Education) from Northern Illinois University. He moved to Muncie in 2000 to work at Ball State University.

After three years as a hall director at BSU, James spent a year as an AmeriCorps Member with Greater Muncie Indiana Habitat for Humanity before returning to BSU for a 15 year stint at the university’s Career Center, training and coaching job candidates one-on-one and in groups. He wrapped his time at BSU as the Associate Director for Employer Relations and Recruitment Programs, working with recruiters from a variety of industries to help them meet their hiring goals.

Since 2019, James Mitchell serves as the Director of HR and Employee Experience at Minnetrista Museum & Gardens.

Professionally, James volunteers as the President of the East Central Indiana Human Resources Association (ECIHRA); he is the past chair of three other nonprofits.

In his free time, James enjoys playing video games, traveling, live theater and museums, especially) and learning new things. The most out-of-the-box thing he is learning currently is self-care through the community at Muncie CrossFit at the Arsenal.

He and his dog, Lady, live in Muncie.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Learn how to talk with someone that always seems to be difficult.

Let’s talk through how you move forward, start the conversation, and get work done.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Setting aside at least one minute each day with the intention of mindfulness makes all the difference in creating space, focus, and calm in your mind and everyday life. Thoughts, actions and reactions are all connected in how in tuned one is to themselves, their surroundings, and present to daily activities. Practicing mindfulness allows one to become more aware and brings peace of mind. Come learn and experience ‘A Mindful Minute’ with me.

Learning Objectives

1. Discover the power of the present moment.
2. Understand what mindfulness is all about and how it relates to meditation.
3. Learn a short mindfulness practice to be able to incorporate into everyday life.

This program is ideal for: anyone interested in increasing their mindfulness

About Our Facilitator

Nichole Linebaugh is passionate about safety and health. She has been working in the occupational safety and health field for just over 10 years and currently holding the Associate Safety Professional (ASP) designation with the Bureau of Certified Safety Professionals and working at FCC (Indiana) in Portland, IN. Nichole is also a yoga practitioner and a 500-hour yoga teacher. She is always continuing to learn and grow in health and wellness and works with private yoga clients and building her business Nurturing Rose Yoga. She helps to guide individuals find the right tools to work through everyday stress and anxiety. With working in the safety and health field, Nichole continues to apply yoga techniques and principles to work through everyday stress and stress at work.

Nichole is currently living in Union City, IN with her family and loves to spend time with them and be out in nature.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Are you looking for a work-from-home job that fulfills you?

Imagine the possibilities with remote work. Let’s talk about how to position yourself to find a remote job that fits your needs.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

In-Person 3 Hour Session

Learning Objectives

1. Explore and dissect their own personal and professional challenges of a management role
2. Recognize common issues to the role, and recognize they are not alone in the fight
3. Discover resources that can assist in their journey
4. Begin creating a clearer path to avoid the pitfalls of middle-management

This program is ideal for:  new managers, middle-managers, and those who lead them.

About Our Facilitator

Ted Ward, the founder of Achieve Onward, has more than 25 years of organizational leadership experience, often serving in a middle-management role as a change agent with groups and organizations needing to pivot toward new strategies and practices.

Having a lifelong spirit of entrepreneurship, Ted has enjoyed numerous ventures in roles requiring a healthy understanding of customer service and leadership. He also enjoyed some time performing with ComedySportz Indianapolis – where he discovered many of the teambuilding, leadership, and professional development practices/philosophies he had been using all along, are parallel to many key attributes of Improv comedy (e.g. “Who’s Line is it Anyway?”) as well. Ted continues to borrow from these key attributes in his ongoing work in helping individuals, teams, and organizations to improve and succeed.

Ted has served with numerous not-for-profit organizations, is a former Chief Probation Officer and President of the Probation Officers Professional Association of Indiana, and he currently serves in a dual role as administrator and faculty at Ball State University. His personal mission statement reads: “I intend to encourage, inspire, and support growth and development among the people I influence.”

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Are you in the best role for you?

Have you been wondering if there is something out there better but not sure when to make a move? Together, we will discuss how to make the decision to stay in your current role or move onto a new opportunity.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Looking to learn excel for everyday tasks, school, or for your next job?

This is a beginner class to learn basics excel functions from navigating and formatting a worksheet to basic formulas.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Your first impression over email can be lasting.

Understand the basics of email etiquette and learn helpful to tips to manage the clutter in your email account so you have more time and less missed messages.

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Read a book. Lead with inspiration.

SLA in partnership with Muncie Public Library is offering a unique quarterly gathering, highlighting important take-aways from inspirational leadership books. At each event, facilitators will share key leadership development lessons from leadership-focused books. This is not a book club, rather a guided discussion around the key takeaways from each book.

Prior reading of the book is not required but we encourage participants to share about what they learned and check-out one of the books from Muncie Public Library. All participants attending will be entered in a raffle to win a digital copy of one of the books discussed.

All sessions are FREE and open to the public. Some events will be in-person and some will be virtual. Registration is required.

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Most people spend a good part of their day communicating with others. Generally, motivation is dependent on communication. We are adequate talkers, but inadequate listeners. Together we discuss four levels of listening and how listening impacts motivation.

Learning Objectives

1. Develop the skill to listen to hear
2. Understand the connection between motivation and listening
3. Create a plan to apply listening, communicating, and understanding to your daily conversations

This program is ideal for: anyone interested in improving their listening skills

About Our Facilitator

Tisha Gierhart was hired as Shafer Leadership Academy’s first Program Director in January 2014. She is primarily responsible for all activities related to the development, delivery, and assessment of leadership programs presented by Shafer Leadership Academy. In this role, she focuses on building collaborative relationships with Shafer Leadership Academy’s participants and partners. (read more)

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Developing strong financial habits will have a great impact on your life and family.

Learn core principles of how to save, spend, and budget to so you better prepared for the future

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.

Led by: Eilis Wasserman

Maybe you’ve realized the career/job you have no longer fits your life.

Discuss the realities of ageism in the workplace and changing priorities as one enters the next phase of their career and how to address these challenges

Eastern Indiana Works provides these sessions, in partnership with Shafer Leadership Academy, as a free service to our clients. Workshops are designed to enhance your marketability and improve your skill-set. 
Please register within 24 hours of workshop time.